Discover How To Make Money Online With These 5 Simple, Effective Strategies
Affiliate programs are one of the best ways to get some serious coinage rattlin around in your pockets
, instead of just pocket lint! Listen, being an affiliate is SMART...Wanna know why?
Because, when you sell someone else's product, the owner has already spent loads of money creating or paying to have the product created for them. They've spent another small fortune creating the website, salesletter, graphics, domain name, hosting, customer support, merchant accounts, email systems, and all the marketing materials...And then you come along, place a tiny little classified ad, or write and submit a measly little article directing people to click on your affiliate link, and get this...You get half the money!!
That's fantastic, isn't it? Ok, let's get on with the 5 strategies that'll keep you making money on the internet forever!
Tip #1. DO NOT Promote a product that's been kicked from one end of the internet to the other...looking like something the cat dragged in! Trying to sell a product that's been around the block so many times, and ending up on Ebay in a kazillion different listings, is a sure way for you to go broke and end up on food stamps!
The best thing to do is, once you locate a product you think would do good, all you gotta do is run a google search for the exact name of the product you're wanting to sell. If it shows up on a handful of sites...and I mean only a handful, then it's looking like it may be a good possibility it'll do well. Just for the heck of it, do the same thing on Ebay. If you find that there's a hundred bus loads of knuckleheads beatin' the crap outta your product all over the place, then you better be looking for a different thing to sell!!
Tip #2. Make sure the product owner has the right kind of bait included in their affiliate marketers tool box. Here's the first thing you must do...you've gotta crawl into your potential customers minds, and think like they do.
You've gotta think about their wants and needs with regard to how the product is gonna address them. You've gotta make absolutely sure that all of the marketing materials specifically address the number one most important thing that's in your customers mind... WIIFM! This stands for what's in it for me?
In other words, when you read the salesletter, does it make you see yourself in it? Does it address your wants and needs? Does it gently and persuasively guide you to the realization that you can't live without the product?
Does it hit all of your emotional hot buttons, and end up makin' you tear off your pockets tryin' to get the money out fast enough?
Listen up: The salesletter and the supporting materials damn well better have that impact on you, cause if they don't...they won't have any impact on your customers either, and you're gonna crash and burn! Which means, you won't be making any online money!
Here's a list of the most important marketing support and materials your product owner WILL have. Remember, if the following things are not given to you, then you'd better just take all of your money, throw it in a pile, and burn it! With that being said, take a look at Tip #3, and try to find most of these resources.
Tip #3. What to look for in your affiliate marketers support system:
Brandable ebooks to give away or sell for a small fee with your own affiliate ID links to generate leads... and sales.
Sales letters-the kind that make you want to spend your money...not the dull, boring crap you see all over the internet! Pre-written email sequences are what you want...and they better be written in the same eyeball grabbing style that the salesletter is!
Free promotional tips provided on how to make money, without you spending a fortune trying to figure it out yourself...this is a must! Advice on how to use paid advertising to target market the product, and other tactics that'll make you a boatload of money. Redirect links through your own website. And you've gotta have banners
Tip #4. Good Tracking software.
If you can't keep track of all the visitors that click on your links, and how many actually buy the product, how on earth are you gonna know if you're being paid for every sale you generate?
It's very important to be able to monitor almost everything in your resources section: You must be able to track your sales. How many visitors came to your site/link and to the merchant site Which page they enter on the merchant site...this is where redirect links are critical!
You must be able to view your payment history. View conversion rates-this is how effective the advertising is...by looking at how many people visited your links and how many actually bought the product.
Tip #5. Cookies and IP addresses.
Today it's common for Internet users to clear their cookies daily or weekly, which in turn wipes your affiliate links off their computers as well!
So if you spend money on PPC or any other paid advertising to get a customer, you do not want to see another affiliate get the commission you should have gotten it.
So choose an affiliate program with tracking software that records the IP address of your future customer, because if your potential customer decides to go around you by going directly to your affiliate product without using your link...
and believe me they will, or if they wipe out all cookies on their computer, your affiliate product owners tracking system will already have their IP and you'll still get the credit, whether they use your link or not!
As a final note-always be sure that your affiliate commissions are at minimum, 50% - that's fifty percent or more of the total purchase price on every order.
With these 5 tips, you should be able to start making internet money by selling someone's product through affiliate marketing, without doing much work, or spending lots of money!
by: Edward Fox
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